FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -Germany defender Jens Nowotny is retiring after another knee injury.
"The latest injury was the reason," Nowotny told Monday's edition of the magazine Kicker.
Nowotny, 33, was in Germany's World Cup squad last year but not in the first-choice team.
After the World Cup, Nowotny signed for Dinamo Zagreb but only played 10 games before injuring his knee.
Earlier this month, Nowotny and the Croatian club agreed to end his three-year contract.
Nowotny played 334 Bundesliga games for Karlsruhe and Bayer Leverkusen and made 48 appearances for Germany.
He tore knee ligaments four times and had many other injuries throughout his career.
